The first table below looks at the demand for Guice skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Guice over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Application Development category.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Google Guice
Rank 505 571 576
Rank change year-on-year
+66 +5
Contract jobs citing Guice 25 7 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.054% 0.012% 0.020%
As % of the Application Development category 0.197% 0.047% 0.071%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 6 10
Average daily rate £513 £525 £650
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.38% -19.23%
UK excluding London average daily rate £650 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Application Development
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Application Development category
12713 14910 16863
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 27.40% 25.58% 27.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7958 8755 9793
Average daily rate £375 £350 £393
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -10.82%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £325
Number of hourly rates quoted 375 374 576
Average hourly rate £35.00 £32.50 £36.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -9.72%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £17.33 £15.00 £19.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £42.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.00 £32.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year
+9.37% -12.32%

Guice
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Guice within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Application Development category.

Guice Jobs Demand Trend

Guice
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Guice within the UK.

Guice Daily Rate Trend

Guice
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Guice within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Guice Daily Rate Histogram

Guice
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Guice within the UK over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +65 24 £475 -9.52%
London +29 15 £475 -9.52%
South East - 9 - -
Surrey - 9 - -
Camberley - 9 - -

Guice
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Guice also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Guice.

1 38 (100.00%) Java
2 36 (94.74%) Spring
3 18 (47.37%) Dependency Injection
4 17 (44.74%) Mockito
4 17 (44.74%) Hibernate
5 15 (39.47%) J2SE
5 15 (39.47%) Maven
6 14 (36.84%) Multithreading
6 14 (36.84%) Open Source
7 12 (31.58%) Jenkins
7 12 (31.58%) TestNG
7 12 (31.58%) JUnit
8 10 (26.32%) Scrum
8 10 (26.32%) Agile Software Development
8 10 (26.32%) Groovy
8 10 (26.32%) GWT
8 10 (26.32%) DbUnit
9 9 (23.68%) Google
10 8 (21.05%) Spring Security
10 8 (21.05%) JPA
10 8 (21.05%) Spring Batch
10 8 (21.05%) TDD
10 8 (21.05%) Finance
10 8 (21.05%) SQL
10 8 (21.05%) Web Services
10 8 (21.05%) XML
10 8 (21.05%) UNIX
11 7 (18.42%) JavaScript
11 7 (18.42%) Ajax
12 6 (15.79%) J2EE

Guice
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK citing Guice also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Guice. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 36 (94.74%) Spring
2 17 (44.74%) Hibernate
3 15 (39.47%) J2SE
4 10 (26.32%) GWT
5 8 (21.05%) JPA
5 8 (21.05%) Web Services
5 8 (21.05%) XML
5 8 (21.05%) Spring Batch
5 8 (21.05%) Spring Security
6 7 (18.42%) Ajax
7 6 (15.79%) J2EE
8 5 (13.16%) HTML
8 5 (13.16%) JAXB
8 5 (13.16%) JSP
8 5 (13.16%) Servlets
8 5 (13.16%) XSLT
8 5 (13.16%) jQuery
9 4 (10.53%) XSD
9 4 (10.53%) Spring Integration
9 4 (10.53%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 6 (15.79%) Tomcat
2 4 (10.53%) WebLogic
3 3 (7.895%) Apache
3 3 (7.895%) Jetty
4 2 (5.263%) Confluence
4 2 (5.263%) ESB
5 1 (2.632%) Apache Pig
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.16%) Big Data
2 4 (10.53%) MarkLogic
2 4 (10.53%) Crystal Reports
2 4 (10.53%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (7.895%) Hadoop
3 3 (7.895%) MongoDB
4 2 (5.263%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (5.263%) MySQL
5 1 (2.632%) SQL Server
5 1 (2.632%) RDBMS
5 1 (2.632%) HBase
Development Applications
1 17 (44.74%) Mockito
2 15 (39.47%) Maven
3 12 (31.58%) JUnit
3 12 (31.58%) Jenkins
3 12 (31.58%) TestNG
4 10 (26.32%) DbUnit
5 6 (15.79%) Eclipse
6 5 (13.16%) jMock
7 4 (10.53%) EasyMock
8 3 (7.895%) Hudson
9 2 (5.263%) Git (software)
9 2 (5.263%) TeamCity
9 2 (5.263%) Subversion
9 2 (5.263%) JIRA
10 1 (2.632%) Log4j
10 1 (2.632%) Visual Studio
10 1 (2.632%) Mercurial
General
1 8 (21.05%) Finance
2 5 (13.16%) Banking
2 5 (13.16%) Front Office
3 3 (7.895%) Retail
4 1 (2.632%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 33 (86.84%) Developer
2 25 (65.79%) Java Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Senior Developer
3 5 (13.16%) Senior Java Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Java Software Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Software Developer
4 4 (10.53%) Software Engineer
4 4 (10.53%) Java Software Engineer
5 3 (7.895%) Java/J2EE Developer
6 1 (2.632%) Java Swing Developer
6 1 (2.632%) Senior C# Developer
6 1 (2.632%) C# Developer
6 1 (2.632%) J2EE Developer
Miscellaneous
1 14 (36.84%) Open Source
2 2 (5.263%) Inversion of Control
2 2 (5.263%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.632%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.632%) Grid Computing
3 1 (2.632%) Ontologies
3 1 (2.632%) Semantic Web
3 1 (2.632%) Hedge funds
3 1 (2.632%) SWIFT
3 1 (2.632%) Linked Data
3 1 (2.632%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 8 (21.05%) UNIX
2 4 (10.53%) Linux
3 1 (2.632%) Windows
3 1 (2.632%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (47.37%) Dependency Injection
2 14 (36.84%) Multithreading
3 10 (26.32%) Scrum
3 10 (26.32%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (21.05%) TDD
5 5 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
6 4 (10.53%) Kanban
6 4 (10.53%) E-Commerce
7 3 (7.895%) MVC
8 2 (5.263%) Software Engineering
8 2 (5.263%) Time Management
9 1 (2.632%) Electronic Trading
9 1 (2.632%) Investment Management
9 1 (2.632%) Waterfall
9 1 (2.632%) Business Analysis
9 1 (2.632%) Wealth Management
9 1 (2.632%) OO
9 1 (2.632%) Data Modelling
9 1 (2.632%) RDF
Programming Languages
1 38 (100.00%) Java
2 10 (26.32%) Groovy
3 8 (21.05%) SQL
4 7 (18.42%) JavaScript
5 4 (10.53%) PL/SQL
5 4 (10.53%) Shell Script
6 2 (5.263%) Scala
7 1 (2.632%) C#
7 1 (2.632%) SPARQL
7 1 (2.632%) XQuery
Vendors
1 9 (23.68%) Google
2 5 (13.16%) Oracle
3 1 (2.632%) Infragistics
3 1 (2.632%) Endeca